Richard Campanella

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Barthélemy Lafon and the Origins of Stormwater Management in New Orleans’ Lower Garden District (1806)

Sustainable urban water management has been a priority ever since local architect David Waggonner and colleagues brought attention to the …

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ORIGIN OF OUR OWN AXIOMS: The urban research of Richard Hurd 

“AXIOMATIC” — something that is self-evident, so obvious that few would question it — is a curious descriptor because, quite …

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An aerial portrait of old Tremé: 1922 photo shows railway station, Tremé Market and more

One day in 1922, a U.S. Army Air Service biplane based out of Montgomery, Ala., wafted through the midsummer skies …

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A dubious demolition on Dauphine Street

YOU’VE PROBABLY NOTICED IT, a specimen of early-1960s pastiche architecture more befitting of Metairie or Terrytown than the French Quarter. What …

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Before the Pontchartrain Expressway: Last days of the New Basin Canal

“New approaches from the west — Pontchartrain Expressway,” wrote Robert Moses atop a key section in his Arterial Plan for …

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Before the Pontchartrain Expressway: a peek at what we lost

“It is our unanimous opinion that this route should follow generally the New Basin Canal…and then continue along a new …

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Innovation in Theaters: the Tulane and Crescent

If ever there was a town made for theater, New Orleans fits the playbill. Its populace, historically and today, seems …

December 2023/January 2024

“The fate of the Villa Saulet,” 270 years of change on Annunciation Street

This story appeared in the December/January issue of PRC’s Preservation in Print magazine. Interested in getting more preservation stories like this delivered …

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In Jonesville, a most unusual historical reconstruction

This story appeared in the October/November issue of PRC’s Preservation in Print magazine. Interested in getting more preservation stories like this delivered …

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“A scene of tumultuous confusion”: the history of slave auctioning at Hewlett’s Exchange

This story appeared in the August/September issue of PRC’s Preservation in Print magazine. Interested in getting more preservation stories like this delivered …

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With yellow fever raging, 19th-century physicians eyed New Orleans’ stagnant canals as sources of disease

The following is an edited excerpt from Richard Campanella’s latest book, “Draining New Orleans: The 300-Year Quest to Dewater the …

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The Villa Era: tracing New Orleans’ history of of sub-rural and suburban retreats

Header image: The Luling Mansion, built in 1866 off Esplanade Avenue, was at the time located in the urban fringe. …